Not colluding with CPI(M) on Indira Bhavan renaming issue:Cong
Congress today denied West Bengal chief Mamata Banerjee's charge that it was colluding with CPI(M) to attack her government on the issue of rechristening a house in Kolkata named after Indira Gandhi.
"I do not understand the context of that question where the WB CM is saying that Congress and the Left are working in tandem. Congress is in alliance with Trinamool in West Bengal. Trinamool is an ally of UPA in Delhi", Congress spokesman Manish Tewari told mediapersons here.
"However, it is correct that in past because of the congrugence of views on secularism, the Left was with UPA-I. I do not know in what context, circumstances and perspective the statement was made by the West Bengal Chief Minister," he said.
Tewari also reminded Banerjee that Indira Gandhi was also once her leader.
Congress' reaction came to Banerjee's charge that the party's state unit was colluding with CPI(M) to attack her party on a move to to rename Indira Bhavan, where late prime Minister Indira Gandhi had stayed during the 1972 AICC session, after rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
Banerjee said in Kolkata that Congressmen were now agitating but were silent when the house was used as a CPI(M) party office when Jyoti Basu was staying there.
Tewari said "we have great respect for artistes and musicians but it is also important to keep in mind that late Indira Gandhi was not only a very respectable leader of the nation but at a time had also been the leader of the present West Bengal Chief Minister."
